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Dingo vs Coward - What's the difference?

dingo | coward | Synonyms |

Dingo is a synonym of coward.


As proper nouns the difference between dingo and coward

is that dingo is goofy (cartoon character) while coward is .

dingo

English

(wikipedia dingo)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • , a wild dog native to Australia.

    • Derived terms

    * dry as a dead dingo’s donger

    Hypernyms

    * dog

    References

    , Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, pages 65 and 226.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    coward

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who lacks courage.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

    Synonyms

    * chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * cowardly * cowardice

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cowardly.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
  • * Prior
    • Invading fears repel my coward joy.
  • (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
    • English words suffixed with -ard